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$30.00
xxewe62396

Along Parallel Lines - A history of the railways of New South Wales 1850 - 1986


GUNN, JOHN

inscribed & signed by the author, first edition hardback octavo with d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: Melbourne University Press 1989

KEYWORDS: specials history australia new south wales tail trains railways john gunn travel transport

$18.50
xxewe62398

Old Homes of Lyttelton Harbour


CRESSWELL, FRANCES

2nd revised edition, saddle-stapled paperback with d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: Pegasus 1966

KEYWORDS: specials new zealand lyttelton canterbury houses home history frances cresswell

$10.00
xxewf62413

Hannibal's Footsteps


LEVIN, BERNARD

paperback (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: Sceptre 1988

KEYWORDS: specials bernard levin history hannibal alps warfare

$37.50
xxewf62429

Memories (Mainly Merry) of Marcus Marks


MARKS, MARCUS

first edition, hardback octavo with worn d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: The Endeavor Press 1934

KEYWORDS: specials marcus marks new zealand history government printer hansard

$25.00
xxewf62431

History of the Southland Hospitals and Boards 1861-1968


N/A

(NR) saddle-stapled paperback (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: N/A

KEYWORDS: specials new zealand history hospitals health medicine south island

$22.50
xxewf62432

Judge Ward


ADAMS, GEOFF

Octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: Geoff Adams 2011

KEYWORDS: specials new zealand colonialism history geoff adams dudley ward anne thorpe talbot women biography suffrage literature

$28.50
xxewf62438

The Voyage of Life - Eight addresses on some aspects of it


WADDELL, RUTHERFORD

hardback with d/w, lacks fep. (VG-, tired copy, some loss to spine); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: N.Z. Book Depot

KEYWORDS: specials new zealand rutherford waddell history essays

$19.50
xxewf62443

Douglas Haig As I Knew Him


DUNCAN, G.S.

ex library, first edition hardback, lacks d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1966

KEYWORDS: specials douglas haig scotland history religion gs duncan

$65.00
1w22a/5

Air of Battle


FRY, WING COMMANDER WILLIAM

Ex library, super octavo, blue boards with gilt lettering to spine, 194pp, illus, VG- (some staining to front board, 5cm closed tear to lower spine, small ding to upper spine & front board corner, label-removal damage & sellotape-residue stains to feps, child's scribble & drawings in ink to half-title verso & title pages, moderate browning to page edges) in d/w, VG- (bruising & soiling to spine extrems & edges, some tanning, sellotape residue staining)

PUBLISHER: William Kimber & Co 1974

KEYWORDS: Wing Commander William Fry First World War One WWI autobiography memoir air battle aviation history airmen Royal Flying Corps

$90.00
1w22a/6

'Helicopter' Pioneering with Igor Sikorsky based on a Personal Account by William E Hunt


HUNT, WILLIAM E.

Association copy with warm signed & dated inscription by author to NZ Aviation Author Ian Mackersey, imperial octavo, black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 229pp, illus, nr fine, in d/w, VG+ (small stain to rear)

PUBLISHER: Airlife Publishing 1998

KEYWORDS: William E Hunt Igor Sikorsky helicopters aviation aeronautical history biography air transport engineering design

$85.00
1w22a/7

Air of Battle


FRY, WING COMMANDER WILLIAM M.

First edition, super octavo, blue boards with gilt lettering to spine, 194pp, illus, VG+ (owner's name stamp to front pastedown, v slight tannning to eps) in d/w, VG (heavy tanning to flaps, 2cm untidy tears to upper spine sides repaired neatly with tape, v slight bruising to edges, fading to fore-edges, creasing to rear upper edge)

PUBLISHER: William Kimber 1974

KEYWORDS: first edition Wing Commander William M Fry First World War One WWI aviation history fighter pilots flying flight Royal Flying Corps

$100.00
1w22a/10

Motorbike Memories: Extracts from On Two Wheels


n/a

Quarto, brown boards, pp 1583-1840, illus, VG+ (some light foxing to edges) in d/w VG+ (light fading to spine, v slight bruising to spine extrems)

PUBLISHER: Orbis Publishing / Godfrey Cave Assoc 1984

KEYWORDS: motorbikes motorcycles history racing motorcycling motorcyclists riders Surtees Bert Le Vack Isle of Man Douglas Norton Scott Sunbeam sidecar racing racers tracks bikes

$33.50
1w22a/14

Main Trunk: Portrait of a Railway


A Celebration of 100 Years of North Island Railway History

JOHNSON, CHRISTINE & LARSEN, RUTH & RAMSHAW, KEVIN

Imperial octavo, black cloth boards with silver lettering to spine, illus prelims, 152pp, illus, VG+ in d/w, nr fine

PUBLISHER: Grantham House / Ontrack NZ Railways Corp 2008

KEYWORDS: Christine Johnson Ruth Larsen Kevin ramshaw New Zealand North Island main trunk railway train transport history

$30.00
1w22a/18

Aviation: A Historical Survey from its Origins to the end of World War II (Two)


GIBBS-SMITH, CHARLES HARVARD

Ex aviation library, super octavo, black buckram boards with gilt lettering in blue decorative panel to spine & gilt bird motif to front board, illus eps, frontispiece, xiv + 316pp, illus + several fold-out tables of take-offs & )flights, VG+ (bookseller's label to front paste-down, library label to fep, two stain spots to front board

PUBLISHER: Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1970

KEYWORDS: Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith aviation aeronautics history aircraft aeroplanes

$40.00
1w22a/19

Smithy: The Kingsford-Smith Story


MCNALLY, WARD

Ex library, lacks fep, association copy, ownership signature of Ian Mackersey, aviation biography of Kingsford-Smith, & his pencil notations to index & throughout & lengthy pencil note to rear ep. Octavo, blue boards with silver lettering to spine, 190pp, illus, VG- (sellotape residue stains to boards & eps, lacks fep, light tanning to eps, some foxing & tanning) in d/w, (price clipped, some tanning, moderate tape residue stains to edges)

PUBLISHER: Robert Hale 1966

KEYWORDS: Ward McNally Charles Kingsford-Smith biography aviation aeronautics history flying pilot

$245.00
1w22a/40

The Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright including the Chanute-Wright Letters & Other Papers of Octave Chanute


Volume One 1899-1905; Volume Two 1906-1948

MCFARLAND, MARVIN W. (Ed)

Two-volume set, super octavo, turquoise cloth boards with silver lettering & silver aviation motifs to spine & front boards, frontispiece, lv + 673pp + 2pp adverts (vol 1), xxvii + 677-1278pp + 2pp adverts (vol 2), illus, VG+ (v. slight soiling to boards)

PUBLISHER: Arno Press Reprint 1972

KEYWORDS: Marvin W McFarland Wilbur Wright Orville Wright Octave Chanute letters correspondence aviation history

$38.50
xxbhc62447

Wings across the World: An Illustrated History of British Airways


PENROSE, HARALD

First edition, quarto hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Cassell 1980

KEYWORDS: specials first edition Harald Penrose British Airways aviation aeronautical pictorial history aircraft industry

$13.50
xxbhc62450

Richard Pearse: Pioneer Aviator


RODLIFFE, C. GEOFFREY

Oblong quarto softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Museum of Transport & Richard Pearse Memorial Commmittee 1983

KEYWORDS: specials aviation aeronautical history aircraft industry aviators pilots Richard Pearse biography C Geoffrey Rodliffe New Zealand

$18.50
xxbhc62451

Early Flight 1900-1911: Original Photographs from the Wright Brothers Personal Collection


GEIBERT, RON & MALISHENKO, TUCKER (Eds)

Oblong quarto softcover (nr fine); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Landfall Press 1984

KEYWORDS: specials aviation aeronautical history aircraft pilots Ron Geibert Tucker Malishenko Orville Wright Wilbur Wright photography exhibition

$35.00
xxbhc62452

Wright Brothers National Memorial Historic Resource Study January 1997


CHAPMAN, WILLIAM R. & HANSON, JILL K.

Quarto softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: US Department of Interior 1997

KEYWORDS: specials aviation aeronautical history aircraft pilots Orville Wright Wilbur Wright national memorial

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